Science is not only a lesson that children read in their books—it is also a scientific inquiry throughout the world. Science makes the world even more exciting, from the development of plants to the fact that your balloon gets stuck to your sweater after you have rubbed it with it. It is science that makes the world brighter and more exciting.

Moreover, what’s better to learn than by doing? No matter if you're a mother looking for a weekend activity or a student preparing for the school fair, we have a mix of exciting, safe, and educational science experiments that will make you have fun while learning at the same time.

Now let's take a deeper look into the world of erupting beakers, flying rockets, colored magic—or imagine doing all these from your home or even your classroom.

Invisible Ink Messages

• Topic: Chemistry 

• You’ll Need: Lemon juice, cotton swab, paper, lamp or candle (with adult supervision)

• How It Works: The cotton swab should be put into the lemon juice, and this should be used to write a message on the paper. Allow it time to become dry. When the paper is dry, you can use a heat source to make the message visible (be very careful on that!). 

• Why It Works: Lemon juice is an organic substance that changes its chemical characteristics and bakes when subjected to heat, hence, the words that are concealed can be revealed. 

DIY Volcano

• Topic: Chemical Reactions

• You’ll Need: Baking soda, vinegar, dish soap, red food coloring, a plastic cup and clay or playdough

• How It Works: First, a volcano is to be made of clay around the cup. Put baking soda, a few drops of dish soap, and red food coloring into the cup. Finally, when all is done, pour the vinegar into the cup and observe the result of the experiment!

• Why It Works: The reaction of baking soda and vinegar generates CO2 which flows out of the mixture and thus you have a fizzy eruption.

Dancing Raisins

• Topic: Density and Buoyancy

• You’ll Need: Clear soda (like Sprite or 7-Up), raisins, a glass

• How It Works: Put a few raisins in the soda from the glass and you can see the magic they will do. They will become lighter, and finally, appeal to the raisins settled down in an M&M that swims around the glass.

• Why it works: The bubble fizzes from the soda, and it creates a sticky solution on the surface of the raisins thus making them float as the bubbles go away the raisins are not stuck anymore so they become sunken again.

Rainbow Walking Water

• Topic: Capillary Action

• You’ll Need: 6 clear cups, paper towels, food coloring (red, yellow, blue), water

• How It Works: Place the cups in a circle or a line alternating between empty and full ones. In the overall 6 cups, 3 of them are already with colored water (red, yellow, blue). Take a paper towel and put it between the individual cups as a bridge. Now, you can see how the water gets from a colored cup to an empty one and at the same time gives new colors due to the mix of colored water.

Static Electricity Butterfly

• Topic: Static Electricity 

• You’ll Need: Tissue paper, construction paper, balloon, glue 

• How It Works: Cut a butterfly from construction paper and its wings from tissue paper. The body, however, must be attached with glue to the construction paper. Inflate a balloon, rub it on your hair, then pass it over the wings. The wings will rise and flutter! 

• Why It Works: The balloon being rubbed creates static electricity, thereby, the light tissue paper comes to the balloon. The light tissue paper is attracted by the static electricity on the balloon.

And now, in case you are in need of a fascinating guide for a school fair, this blog can also help you with curating Science Experiments for Kids School Project ideas that lend a lot of creativity, learning, and a touch of wow factor. 

Balloon Rocket Launch

• Topic: Physics – Newton’s Third Law

• You’ll Need: Balloon, string, straw, tape 

• How It Works: Put the string through the straw, and attach it to a chair at the other end. Inflate the balloon but do not tie it, tape it to the straw, and let it go!

• Why It Works: When the air leaves the balloon, it rushes in one direction and this causes the balloon to change its place in the other direction just like a rocket! 

Lava Lamp in a Bottle

• Topic: Density and Chemical Reactions

• You’ll Need: Clear plastic bottle, vegetable oil, water, food coloring, Alka-Seltzer tablets

• How It Works: Take the bottle and pour oil into about 2/3 of it and water-filling the rest. Now, add food coloring and drop a piece of Alka-Seltzer. You will observe the colored bubbles going up and down the bottle like a lava lamp.

• Why It Works: The Alka-Seltzer springs into action and swiftly reacts with water to give off a kind of gas, and as for oil and water, they do not mix so the bubbles are able to go up through the oil resulting in a fascinating effect.

Conclusion

Science education tools like fun science experiments are the most effective way of making children passionately interested in science. By using some easily accessible materials and being given a little assistance, children can realize the biggest scientific phenomena through the most fun and unforgettable ways. It is also helpful to those kids who are bored at home, as well as a stunning school project, and therefore, this is the kind of thing from which they will get excited and learn.